Assistant Professor and Physicist

Specialties

• Radiotherapy optimization problems
• Inverse problems in radiotherapy physics
• Regularizations methods to improve stability and accuracy of inverse planning for IMRT
• Reconstruction of electron spectra from depth-dose distributions
• Proton-beam dose calculation and optimization
• Radiobiology and bioeffect planning
• Computational deterministic, analytical, and Monte Carlo methods for neutral and charged particle transport and their application in radiation therapy treatment planning, radiation dosimetry, and radiation protection

Educational Background

• Clinical Residency, Tom Baker Cancer Center, Calgary, Canada
• PhD, Radiation Physics, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
• MS, Radiological Physics, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia

Professional Societies and Committees

• Diplomate of the American Board of Radiology (DABR), Subspecialty: Therapeutic Radiologic Physics (2004)
• Member of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine (MCCPM), Subspecialty: Radiation Oncology Physics (2003)
• Certified Radiation Expert (CRE), State of Ohio, Category: Therapeutic (2004)
• Therapeutic Radiological Physicist, State of Florida, License NO. TPR 264 (2007)
• Member of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
• Member of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP)
• Member of the Penn-Ohio Chapter of APPM
• Member of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) (2001-2004)

Honors and Awards

• German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship, 1992-1993
• Moscow Engineering Physics Institute Scholarship, 1987-1990

Selected Publications

• A.V.Chvetsov, J.F. Dempsey, and J.R.Palta. Optimization of equivalent uniform dose using the L-curve criterion. Physics in Medicine and Biology 52: 5973-5984 (2007).
• J. Wei, G.A. Sandison, and A.V. Chvetsov. Reconstruction of electron spectra from depth doses using adaptive regularization. Medical Physics 33(2): 354-359 (2006).
• A.V. Chvetsov. L-curve analysis of radiotherapy optimization problems. Medical Physics 32(8): 2598-2605 (2005).
• A.V. Chvetsov, D. Calvetti, J.W. Sohn, and T.J. Kinsella. Regularization of inverse treatment planning for intensity modulated radiation therapy. Medical Physics 32(2): 501-514 (2005).
  Also published in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, February 1, 2005, www.vjbio.org (American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics).
• A.V. Chvetsov and G.A. Sandison. Angular correction in reconstruction of electron spectra from depth dose distributions. Medical Physics 30(8): 2155-2158 (2003).
• A.V. Chvetsov and G.A. Sandison. Reconstruction of electron spectra using singular component decomposition. Medical Physics 29(4): 578-591 (2002).
• C. Yeboah, G.A. Sandison, and A.V. Chvetsov. Intensity and energy modulated radiotherapy with proton beams: Variables affecting optimal prostate plan. Medical Physics 29(2):176-189 (2002).
• A.V.Chvetsov, G.A. Sandison, and C. Yeboah. The energy-dependent electron loss model for pencil beam dose kernels. Physics in Medicine and Biology 45(10): 2913-2930 (2000).
• G.A. Sandison and A.V.Chvetsov. Proton loss model for therapeutic beam dose calculations. Medical Physics 27(9): 2133-2145 (2000).